No "lunatics" here ... just a 6-foot, 5-inch hypocrite

It's always rewarding to see a hypocrite get a taste of his own medicine. It's the kind of thing that confirms their, well, hypocrisy.

That happened recently when our favorite habitual user of mental health stereotypes, Bill O'Reilly of FOX News, recently mixed it up with a Barack Obama staffer just before the New Hampshire primary.

O'Reilly's physical - and borderline violent - attempt to remove an Obama staffer who was allegedly blocking his video shoot confirms the man's instability. But it was emblematic of his endless attempts to embarrass people who don't share his conservative brand of politics.

This time, he merely embarrassed himself.



When others do it - particularly those who don't share his politics - they're called "pinheads." Or "jerks." More often than not, they're "loons" or "lunatics," and portrayed in a way that makes them subhuman.

Over and over again, Bill finds a way to demean an entire group of people by attaching a mental health label to what he considers derogatory behavior. But when does he hold himself accountable for his own behavior?